Can I Run Mistral Family on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?

Written by Jakub Rusinowski · Last updated January 28, 2025

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~5.5 GB of headroom running Mistral Small 3 (24B) at Q4_K_M (14.5 GB, ~55 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 16K context.

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Specs

VRAM20 GB
Memory Bandwidth800 GB/s

Mistral Small 3 (24B) on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT: VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 20 GB?Max context
F1649.7 GB✗ No
Q8_027.2 GB✗ No
Q6_K21.4 GB✗ No
Q5_K_M18.7 GB✓ Yes8K
Q4_K_M16.2 GB✓ Yes16K
Q3_K_M12 GB✓ Yes32K
Q2_K9.6 GB✓ Yes32K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 20 GB. Figures are estimates from parameter count, quantization and memory bandwidth — the analyzer lets you tune KV-cache quant and context.

Mistral Family Sizes That Fit the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Mistral Small 3 (24B)Q4_K_M · 14.5 GB · ~55 tok/s (est.)
Mistral NeMo 12BQ4_K_M · 8.5 GB · ~94 tok/s (est.)
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FAQ

Mistral Family on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT — does it fit?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~5.5 GB of headroom running Mistral Small 3 (24B) at Q4_K_M (14.5 GB, ~55 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 16K context.

Which Mistral Family variant fits best on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT?

Mistral Small 3 (24B) at Q4_K_M quantization (14.5 GB), estimated ~55 tokens/sec, up to 16K context.

Mistral Family on Other GPUs

Popular Models on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

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